2 Chapter 2 - An unhappy new year

Victor looked at his best friend.

A tall, muscular man of Asian appearance, with a shiny bald head, a narrow face, brown eyes and a scar on his right eye crossing his forehead and cheek. In the modern world, human nations have united into one UHOS, but many countries within this association still exist, they are like huge companies within the country in the past, now powerful countries have access to different planets, resources and technologies. And small countries have almost no place left in this cruel world. Well, here everything is as usual: The rich have become richer, the poor have become poorer, only at the country level.

Gray was born on the planet Zian, an urban planet belonging to Britain, in which various small countries enter their investments and acquire pieces of land on the surface. His parents were born Vietnamese citizens of the planet Zion, but later migrated to another planet, where his parents called him Gray Marocoso.

- Gray, I understand that you are already a veteran, so to speak, a person with vast experience in combat, but please do not act recklessly. The exoskeleton is certainly a cool thing, but it cannot save you from everything, especially at such a not calm time.

- Okay Vic, I'll try to be careful next time

-Eh, how many times have you already told me this, okay, in principle, I adjusted your armor and replaced the helmet, I also added a new operating system there, the scientific department has developed something new, they say it increases the effectiveness of the battle by 6%. Try it on

- Thank you, buddy, that would be right away.

Gray enthusiastically jumped out of his chair and walked over to the armor. He raised his stormtrooper ID to the chest of his armor, and immediately a cold, metallic voice rang out.

-Clearance confirmed, Lieutenant Gray Morocoso.

After a series of voice prompts, the front of the armor opened, the chest parted in different directions, and the legs and arms simply reached inward, allowing the person to enter, which Gray did. After that, the exoskeleton closed, and the previously dark, dead eyes on the helmet lit up blue. A sound came from the helmet.

-mmm, the system is really different, it says here that firing sensors have been added, allowing you to better adjust the trajectory of bullets. And also a new and improved version of the incoming information around the fighter was added. Hmm, you have to get used to working differently.

-Well, it's nothing new for you Mr. "I am very tough and I can tear apart a battalion of pirates with my bare hands".

-Heh, you are right, okay Vic, I'll go to the shooting range.

Gray with languid heavy steps began to leave the workshop, stopping at the exit

- By the way, we found a couple of interesting things here, from the pirates, then go to block 3, look, maybe something will interest you.

And after that, the door closed. Victor looked into empty space.

- Eh, another hard day.

[Repeatable Mission: Equipment Repair Completed]

[List of rewards depending on difficulty]

[32400 XP gained]

[Mechanic skill increased from 6 to 7]

[Repair Master skill increased from 8 to 9]

[Persuasion skill increased from 3 to 4]

In fact, Victor has his own secret, which he never told anyone, not even his best friend, whom he knows from school days.

He is a reincarnator. He was an ordinary 20-year-old Russian recluse in 2020, played games, read short stories, although it cannot be said that he did not have friends, there were not many of them. He had a loving family, an older brother to whom he was always equated, as well as a sweet and kindest little sister. At that time, there was a coronavirus epidemic around the world, but it seemed to be already on the decline. And so on New Year's Eve, he went with friends to the mall, his parents decided to give him PS 5, gave him money and sent him to shop

- Dude, go ahead and grab the console and leave here, why have you been choosing there for so long.

- Yes, I'm thinking, take the collector's edition of Skyrim or Fallout 76.

- Oh, come on, are you serious? I'm also surprised that Tod hasn't ported Skyrim to calculators, and Fallout 76 sucks, why do you need it at all.

- You don't understand, there are cool controllers and fig….

Before Viktor had time to finish, a serena sounded throughout the mall.

- Attention, keep calm, the police are currently searching for a particularly dangerous group of terrorists who have infiltrated the shopping center. I repeat, keep calm and if you spot any suspicious individuals, report them to the police immediately.

- Well, here's the new year for you.

-Hmm, grab your PS 5 already and let's go home, I'm somehow not at ease.

Victor decided to take Fallout 76, after all, updates are being made there, maybe later the game will be worth its money. The guys went to the checkout. Just as Vic pulled out his wallet, a group of masked men burst into the electronics store. All the people in the room immediately began to sweat and get nervous. Still, no one would like to get hit by a bullet. The terrorists were whispering about something, and then pointed a finger at the woman with the little girl and Victor.

- Hey, come here quickly if you want to live.

The child began to cry, but the mother stoically endured and walked towards them with slow steps, Victor's bowels were shaking, but he still managed to somehow get to the terrorists. While they were holding 3 people hostage, they continued to whisper in their own language.

- Abdul, why do we need to keep these people, let's just remove the bombs from Muslim and put on one of them and let them into the crowd, and shoot the rest and that's it.

-You are right Ahmed, who will be this lucky one?? I propose to mummy, and just kill that guy.

Abdul nodded to Ahmed and looked unkindly at Victor. Vic did not know their language, but he felt that they were up to something that he definitely would not like. He looked at another terrorist approaching Mom and saw wires sticking out from under his vest. Vic immediately understood everything, they are death row and they do not feel sorry for their lives, so most likely everyone here will die. Vic sighed, then jumped up and ran at the bomber with the bomb. Other terrorists were clearly shocked by such insolence from an ordinary kid, but they reacted quickly and started shooting at him. Victor sharply approached the bomber, but then he suddenly felt multiple pain in his back. He gathered all the last will into a fist, and jumped at the bomber, pushing him along with him from the 6th floor of the shopping center towards the fountain.

*******BOOOOM*******

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